American Skiffle Bands- Skiffle Bands / Various
SKU: 093070261020
The skiffle band-a kind of ensemble that nearly disappeared after the 1920s-uses homemade or inexpensive instruments, including washboards, harmonicas, jugs, washtub basses, kazoos, tin flutes, woodblocks, and slide whistles to play a variety of songs. The recordings featured here were made between 1954 and 1957, and the musicians are mostly older men.
Tracklist:
- Raise a Ruckus Tonight
- Rock Me, Baby
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Trouble, Trouble Followed Me All of My Days
- Interview with Virgil Perkins
- Goin Around the Mountain, Darlin' Bessie
- John Henry
- Harmonica Blues
- Tippin' Round 1
- Interview and Solos: A. Old John Booker, You Call That Gone 1
- What You Gonna Do, Baby, When Your Troubles Get Like Mine 1
- Interview with Will Shade and Charlie Burse 1
- Take Your Fingers Off It
The skiffle band-a kind of ensemble that nearly disappeared after the 1920s-uses homemade or inexpensive instruments, including washboards, harmonicas, jugs, washtub basses, kazoos, tin flutes, woodblocks, and slide whistles to play a variety of songs. The recordings featured here were made between 1954 and 1957, and the musicians are mostly older men.
Tracklist:
- Raise a Ruckus Tonight
- Rock Me, Baby
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Trouble, Trouble Followed Me All of My Days
- Interview with Virgil Perkins
- Goin Around the Mountain, Darlin' Bessie
- John Henry
- Harmonica Blues
- Tippin' Round 1
- Interview and Solos: A. Old John Booker, You Call That Gone 1
- What You Gonna Do, Baby, When Your Troubles Get Like Mine 1
- Interview with Will Shade and Charlie Burse 1
- Take Your Fingers Off It